Barnardos Conference 2012
2012 marks 50 years of Barnardos working and helping families and children in Ireland. To begin our celebrations, we hosted an international conference on Feb 28th:
2012 marks 50 years of Barnardos working and helping families and children in Ireland. To begin our celebrations we hosted the Children at the Centre: The Future for Child Welfare and Protection in Ireland conference. The aim of the conference was to influence the change presently happening within the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the HSE by promoting a more coherent and accountable system that will lead to improved delivery of service provision at community level whilst consistently complying with national standards and policies.
Children at the Centre: Animation
Presentations and Papers from the Conference
The conference was
attended by a range of policy makers and practitioners and provided a space for
what we hope will be ongoing discussions about what we need to do to begin the
process of change to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families in
Ireland. The debates were influenced by excellent presentations from a range of
international and national speakers:
- Opening Presentation by Fergus Finlay, CEO of Barnardos
- Speech by Gordon Jeyes, Director of the HSE: Vision for the Children & Family Support Agency
- Caroline Vink, Senior International Youth Policies, National Youth Institute, the Netherlands
‘The Evolution, Implementation and Effectiveness of the Youth and Family Centres in the Netherlands’ - Katy Ball, Head of Early Intervention and Market Development, Children and Family, Nottingham City Council, England
‘Prevention and Early Intervention – it’s the best for all’ - Workshop outlining initiatives taken by South Dublin County Council Children’s Services Committee to strengthen interagency working with individual children and families presented by Barnardos’ Children’s Services Dublin West in partnership with the HSE, National Education Welfare Board and Irish Probation Service: It Takes a Village to Raise a Child
- Workshop exploring the experiences of working with young people at risk in the Barnardos’ Lir Project and Family Welfare Conference, North East, delivered in partnership with the HSE: Reaching Young People at Risk: what works in achieving positive outcomes and preventing care entry
- Workshop looking at different components of Barnardos’ Quality Framework including based service designs, auditing, assessment, child protection policy and record keeping: Barnardos Quality Framework
- Workshop highlighting examples of agencies coming together to adopt a more integrated form of interagency working, leading to better outcomes for children presented by Barnardos Children’s Services South and South East in partnership with the HSE: Putting the Pieces Together - Effective Interagency Collaboration in Responding to the Needs of Children in Complex Cases
- Discussion Paper: Reorganising Child and Family Support Services